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53 quotesAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Fiction
Andre Maurois
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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Plagiarism
Wilson Mizner
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If you steal from one author, its plagiarism. If you steal from two, its research.
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Wilson Mizner
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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
Morality
Jean Paul
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The wisest have the most authority.
Wisdom
Plato
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Management
Ronald Reagan
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Authority
Hans Reichenbach
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Men and Women
Pierre Auguste Renoir
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How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority!
Minorities
Leonard H. Robbins
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Atheism
Marquis De Sade
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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Writers and Writing
George Sand
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Kindness out of season destroys authority.
Kindness
Sandi
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Power
Seneca
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Quotations
Seneca
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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
Censorship
William Shakespeare
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man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
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William Shakespeare
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What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Writers and Writing
Logan Pearsall Smith
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Body
Gloria Steinem
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Death and Dying
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.
Travel and Tourism
Source Unknown
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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
Evolution
George Wald
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun